By Sadiq Al-Mahdi The Jewish issue is a European product, anti-Semitism is a European phenomenon and Zionism is a European Jewish reaction against the persecution of the Jews at...

Comment by Fahmi Huwaidi 14/12/2009 The news hit me like a sledgehammer. I still do not want to believe that Egypt has decided to build an underground wall of...

Our brothers in Egypt have the right to dig trenches as they want, build walls as they like, and stick in the ground, to whatever depth they want, reinforced...

Wadi’ Awawdah: Nazareth. The Former PA minister of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) affairs and current PLO/Fatah representative on Al-Quds Hatim Abdul-Qadir has stated that the PA ‘is not a god and...

By Ilyas KhuriIt seems today as if there is no solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The so-called peace process has been in a state of clinical death since the...

When Washington pronounced that “making progress in the peace process and the establishment of two states for two the peoples” is a paramount American interest, most of Europe and...

There is a prevailing feeling that the Palestinian cause is going through a period of tremendous confusion and loss of direction. The desperate internal division between the West Bank...

What is going on in the White House? By Bilal Alhassan A year ago US President Barack Obama outlined a clear and straightforward policy through which he wanted to improve...

We assume that the Obama administration is committed to the peace process and the “two states for two peoples” solution. We have no doubt on this proposition, particularly when...

Abdus-Sattar QasimProfessor of Political studies, Al Najah National University,Some people will hate reading this article, either because it will expose them and their agents, or because it will shake...

Nawaf al-Zrou22/7/2009 There is obvious and substantial evidence that Israel has recently launched successive, deliberate and systematic campaigns against Palestine, Palestinians and the Palestine Question in its entirety in...

The recent hijacking of the Russian ship in the Baltic Sea heading for Algeria caused a great media stir. No sooner had the media furore subsided a blackout of...

August’s bloody clashes between the security forces of the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip and the group that identify themselves as Jund Ansar Allah constitutes a remarkable development...

Whenever a Turkish official makes a diplomatic gesture in the Arab-Islamic region, the media goes on analyzing it and starts speculating about the expected Turkish role in the settlement...

Since his election to the US presidency, Barak Obama has raised a number of questions about his political agenda in general and in particular, his policies with regard to...

Fatah: from an era of trenches to an era of hotelsHebron’s citizens: Dayton lays the foundation for a Palestinian civil war Residents of the city of Hebron have been...

Contrary to assertions by some human rights organizations that the Hamas government would not cooperate with the Goldstone report, a senior official in the government gave a press conference...

FAILING to agree on ways to reduce the deficit, the US president was forced earlier this month to enact the Budget Control Act (BCA) into law. The debt ceiling...

It is expected widely that the current outbreak of popular unrest and protests across the occupied West Bank will become a third intifada, with a new shape and activities....

I was looking at my Twitter news feed on Saturday night, March 9th, and found that a group concerned with Egyptian affairs re-tweeted a post by an Egyptian journalist...

The recent gunfire aimed at members of a border demarcation team on the Iraq-Kuwait border has shed light on the tense relations between the neighbouring countries, despite the fact...

After a month and a half of anxiety, the expected has happened; Netanyahu’s third government was formed with a fairly predictable coalition which excludes the religious parties Shas and...

It has become a tradition amongst American presidents to begin their period of office by visiting Israel, especially over the past three decades during which time the Israel Lobby...

Estimates of the number of fighters in the Islamist Al-Nusra Front are numerous and no one can be sure of the correct figure. Perhaps ten to twenty thousand fighters...

President Barack Obama’s visit to the Middle East has coincided with the 10th anniversary of the killing of American peace activist Rachel Corrie. She was murdered by an American-made...

The past week has seen a lot of media speculation about seven Palestinians who were taken into custody as they tried to enter Egypt and their subsequent release. Was...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s third government (and Israel’s thirty third) does not offer Palestinians anything new: it will be more of the same; the expansion of illegal settlements, aggression and the...

Obama’s speech at the Jerusalem Convention Centre was the culmination of an attempt to further humiliate Palestinians. The affirmation of US support to Israel was imparted in selective rhetoric...

Never in my life have I seen a president that fawns over the Israelis, begs for their approval, sings their praises and lauds their achievements and history like the...

All of the major pro-Israel Lobbyists, including Barack Obama just a few days ago, have used the word “delegitimisation” to condemn critics of the State of Israel and its...

Earlier this year year London played host to the highest ranking female politician in the Arab world, her position made possible by the advent of the Arab Spring –...

Tunisian feminist Amina Tyler says that she set out to highlight the issue of women’s rights when she posted topless pictures of herself on the Femen website. Since you...